Name: Les Artisans
Brand: Theoreme

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MDR51

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Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-12-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Standard:20

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5053760084433

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Theoreme

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Maple Death

Maple Death Records is an independent record label founded by Jonathan Clancy in 2015. Originally based in Bologna, Italy, the label is now located in both London, England and Bologna. Maple Death Records is known for its commitment to showcasing unique and innovative music from a diverse range of artists.

The label has gained recognition for its distinctive sound and uncompromising approach to releasing music. With a focus on underground and experimental genres, Maple Death Records has become a platform for emerging talent as well as established artists who push boundaries.

Distributed by The Business and Republic Of Music, Maple Death Records continues to make waves in the music industry with its carefully curated releases. Whether you're a fan of *Jonathan Clancy* or other talented musicians on the label, you can expect nothing less than exceptional sonic experiences from Maple Death Records.

This is Les Artisans, Theoreme’s first album since 2016’s no-wave burner L’appel du Midi à midi pile. Maïssa D. from Lyon, France is back with an incredible collection of songs that continues and evolves her tradition of hypnotic bass heavy mantras that mix industrial dance, robotic funk experimentalism and hallucinatory club downers.

Obsessed with the idea of literally going underground, Les Artisans feels telluric, stemming from the soil where rhythm is dictated by pounding steps and feverish monologues. Song structures that feel like gum rolling on the tip of your tongue, half-speed Uk Jungle breakbeats that meet On-U Sound’s electronic reggae voyage (‘L’Homme À Face De Rosée’), Henry Mancini sent through a defected blender transmitting lounge noir (‘Tourterelle’) all evoke the spectral atmosphere of Les Artisans, starting with the enveloping title-track, a futuristic dub rhapsody built on a sci-fi bass structure that sways methodically. Theoreme’s music never feels rushed, and for all the synthetic aspects there is a deep organic thumping soul and an incredible knack for flow, often highlighted by futuristic jazz low end motifs (‘Les Gifles Du Pariétal’) and post-punk primitivism (‘Tertre’) eavesdropping into the 99 Records catalogue with a spark of proto-techno (‘Radionucléides’).

Even though one’s mind and Mother earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers give way to abstract banks where rhythm and cadence determine our tempo. This is Theoreme. Très bien!

Les Artisans

Music GB